Activities-Specific Balance Confidence in People with Multiple Sclerosis

Table 1

Demographic data. Medians and interquartile ranges (25–75%) presented for age and time since diagnose, mean for walking speed, otherwise frequency and percentage.

Variable	Total; 𝑛 = 84	Women; 𝑛 = 64	Men; 𝑛 = 20	Faller ≥ 1; 𝑛 = 31	Nonfaller; 𝑛 = 53
Faller	31 (37)	20 (45)	11 (55)	—	—
Age	51 (42–58)	49 (42–58)	55 (38–60)	53 (45–60)	48 (40–58)
Time since diagnose	12 (6–18)	12 (7–18)	12 (2–18)	12 (6–19)	10 (6–17)
Walking speed (m/s)	1.17	1.13	1.30	1.11	1.21
MS type
RR	54 (64)	44 (69)	10 (50)	19 (61)	35 (66)
SP	26 (31)	19 (30)	7 (35)	10 (32)	16 (30)
PP	4 (5)	1 (2)	3 (15)	2 (6)	2 (4)
Walking device
indoors	15 (18)	11 (17)	4 (20)	8 (26)	7 (13)
outdoors	41 (49)	32 (50)	9 (45)	21 (68)	20 (38)
Work/study	47 (66)	35 (65)	12 (75)	16 (52)	31 (58)

RR: relapsing remitting; SP: secondary progressive; PP: primary progressive.